Penn State Scandal

JK_Livin

Here's a story with some meat to it.
http://www.centredaily.com/2006/05/13/3 ... leads.html

Jason P

Strong reaction by Lavar Arrington. I wonder if he is going to throw away his Penn State degree as well? Oh wait, that's right, he doesn't have one.

He was done with Penn State after he left in his Junior year. :ugeek:

EdsonNascimento

Jason P wrote:

Strong reaction by Lavar Arrington. I wonder if he is going to throw away his Penn State degree as well? Oh wait, that's right, he doesn't have one.

He was done with Penn State after he left in his Junior year. :ugeek:

These guys are making this worse. Hard to believe this is possible. Their papa looked the other way while his friend did the most heinous crimes and they think they or any other person associated with their papa should have a say in who goes next. And who would want this job? They are so stupid and show the complete insularity (word?) of the program.

And how stupid - they are going to help current guys transfer and new guys not come - how is that going to help rebuild the program? They think in 10 years when 50 year old Lavar Arrington gives his blessing, guys are going to want to go to crappy Penn State when Ohio State is finishing up their 3rd Nat'l Championship with Urban Myer and Michigan has been a perenial top 15 team with Brady Hoke? They are so ultra stupid.

Their only hope to save this program was for them and their co-former players to support WHOEVER came in. Regardless of who it is, it was going to take time. Now, they may have put the final nail in the proverbial coffin. So stupid.


And who cares about your football team if you don't?!!!! Complete hubris with a classic finish.

Bronx Bombers

Months before Jerry Sandusky’s November arrest on multiple counts of sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period, the Penn State University board of trustees was made aware that a grand jury was investigating the former PSU defensive coordinator, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/colle ... z1jG8IJKax

So the board knew in May yet they allowed Paterno to remain as head coach. I guess the all time wins record is more important to the board than the rape of children on there campus.

Bronx Bombers

Jerry Sandusky caught Joe Paterno's record 409th win from the president's box at Beaver Stadium days before the disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach's November arrest, according to a newspaper report.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... eport-says

Speechless

81

how is this cess pool still open?

JK_Livin

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

Cliffy6745

JK_Livin wrote:

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

What does this have to do with anything? There is a football program that needs a coaching staff and there is an independent investigation that is looking into how they handled Sandusky, obviously poorly. I fail to see what hiring a coach as to do with everything else. Perhaps the kids should have just coached themselves?

The Juggler

Bronx Bombers wrote:

Jerry Sandusky caught Joe Paterno's record 409th win from the president's box at Beaver Stadium days before the disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach's November arrest, according to a newspaper report.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... eport-says

Speechless

fuck that.

didn't read the article but heard that spanier knew of the grand jury investigation well before this too. why on earth would he invite this guy in a box to watch the game?

Empty Glass

Cliffy6745 wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

What does this have to do with anything? There is a football program that needs a coaching staff and there is an independent investigation that is looking into how they handled Sandusky, obviously poorly. I fail to see what hiring a coach as to do with everything else. Perhaps the kids should have just coached themselves?

Because they should never play football again. If a Literature Prof. was accused of this, then Penn State should not teach Lit. If it were a Medical Prof., then no more Dr.'s. it just happens to be football, so.....

Bronx Bombers

81 wrote:

how is this cess pool still open?

Just wait until the lawsuits, heard on the radio they could be facing over 500 million in damages.

davidtrios

81 wrote:

how is this cess pool still open?

:lolno:

Cliffy6745

Empty Glass wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

What does this have to do with anything? There is a football program that needs a coaching staff and there is an independent investigation that is looking into how they handled Sandusky, obviously poorly. I fail to see what hiring a coach as to do with everything else. Perhaps the kids should have just coached themselves?

Because they should never play football again. If a Literature Prof. was accused of this, then Penn State should not teach Lit. If it were a Medical Prof., then no more Dr.'s. it just happens to be football, so.....

Ahh yes, this logic is fantastic. Thank you for reminding me. :thumbup:

JK_Livin

Cliffy6745 wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

What does this have to do with anything? There is a football program that needs a coaching staff and there is an independent investigation that is looking into how they handled Sandusky, obviously poorly. I fail to see what hiring a coach as to do with everything else. Perhaps the kids should have just coached themselves?

Because if the school's administration, some still employed, put half the effort into this Sandusky mess that they put into a coach search, then maybe it would've never got this far.

I'm not saying they shouldn't have football but in the big picture, the games and football mean nothing when compared to the situation at hand. Especially when the football games were the reason everything was covered up to begin with.

polaris_x

i think the issue is that Penn State needs to acknowledge their part in this scandal and more specifically the football program. There was a huge cover up in the interests of the brand Penn State and Penn State Football.

Probably due to lawyers and civil suit settlements - the school is not prepared to do what is right. And the right thing to do is suspend the football program for at least 1 year ... in my opinion ...

Cliffy6745

JK_Livin wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Everyone, it's really important that they hire a head coach and put together a coaching staff :!: The kids aren't as important and can stay in the background a little longer. All wounds heal as long as there is PSU
football, right? :roll:

What does this have to do with anything? There is a football program that needs a coaching staff and there is an independent investigation that is looking into how they handled Sandusky, obviously poorly. I fail to see what hiring a coach as to do with everything else. Perhaps the kids should have just coached themselves?

Because if the school's administration, some still employed, put half the effort into this Sandusky mess that they put into a coach search, then maybe it would've never got this far.

I'm not saying they shouldn't have football but in the big picture, the games and football mean nothing when compared to the situation at hand. Especially when the football games were the reason everything was covered up to begin with.

Agreed that football isn't the big issue but people are making this a different issue than it is. And they ended up with Bill O'Brien, how much effort did they really put into it?

pjhawks

polaris_x wrote:

i think the issue is that Penn State needs to acknowledge their part in this scandal and more specifically the football program. There was a huge cover up in the interests of the brand Penn State and Penn State Football.

Probably due to lawyers and civil suit settlements - the school is not prepared to do what is right. And the right thing to do is suspend the football program for at least 1 year ... in my opinion ...

so punish the kids who had nothing to do with it...good idea

Bronx Bombers

The Juggler wrote:

Bronx Bombers wrote:

Jerry Sandusky caught Joe Paterno's record 409th win from the president's box at Beaver Stadium days before the disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach's November arrest, according to a newspaper report.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... eport-says

Speechless

fuck that.

didn't read the article but heard that spanier knew of the grand jury investigation well before this too. why on earth would he invite this guy in a box to watch the game?

Why not they've been enabling Sandusky since he retired from giving him unlimited access at the school including holding a office on campus to allowing him to attend a closed practice in 2007 with a 10 year old boy as well as allowing him to hold his annual football sleepover on campus through 2010. They could've stopped this years ago but they didn't because at Pedo State football comes before the rape of children. Joe Pa must be pretty proud of the legacy he left

polaris_x

pjhawks wrote:

so punish the kids who had nothing to do with it...good idea

i'm not saying it's fair to everyone ... but this happens everywhere ... people get laid off at jobs because the executives made bad decisions ... innocent people have to deal with foreign sanctions because their leaders did something ... the crux of the problem in this scandal is that Penn State decided that their brand and image was more important than the lives of these kids ... and more specifically the brand of penn state football ... penn state football needs to suffer some consequences ... but that's just my opinion ...

pjhawks

polaris_x wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

so punish the kids who had nothing to do with it...good idea

i'm not saying it's fair to everyone ... but this happens everywhere ... people get laid off at jobs because the executives made bad decisions ... innocent people have to deal with foreign sanctions because their leaders did something ... the crux of the problem in this scandal is that Penn State decided that their brand and image was more important than the lives of these kids ... and more specifically the brand of penn state football ... penn state football needs to suffer some consequences ... but that's just my opinion ...

and the people responsible for those things are all suffereing the consequences. legally and with their jobs. should we close every catholic school and fire every teacher because the priests were molesting kids? should we close every high school where teachers have slept with students? punish those responisble and make the necessary changes so it doesn't happen again.